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Abstract
Health care delivery systems are experiencing dramatic organizational changes. To manage the changes effectively nursing leaders must understand the social processes that affect employees work-related attitudes, particularly leadership style and psychological empowerment. Through the researcher work as a head nurse in Assiut University Hospital. It was observed that staff nurses are complaining from lack of dependence, powerlessness and job dissatisfaction. Therefore, it was felt necessary to examine the relationship between leadership styles, and empowerment and job satisfaction among those staff nurses working at Assiut University Hospitals. The present study has been conducted to explore the head nurse leadership styles which transformational or transactional as prescribed by their staff nurses and the relation between the leadership styles and empowerment and effects of leadership styles and empowerment on job satisfaction of their staff nurses. The study included all staff nurses working at general medical and general surgical units (131) at Assiut University Hospitals, distributed as follows, 55 had a diploma of secondary nursing school and 76 had a diploma of specialty in addition. The tools of the present study were socio-demographic data sheet, including age, sex, martial status, income, nursing qualification and years of experience. Transformational Transactional (T.T) leadership style questionnaire (Schermerhorn, 1999), this questionnaire consisted of 10-pairs statements that reflect staff nurses perception of their head nurse tendencies toward transformational (TF) or transactional (TA) leadership.